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Why Programming Still Stinks
Andrew Leonard writes "Scott Rosenberg has a column on Salon today about a conference held in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the publishing of 'Programmers at Work.' Among the panelists saying interesting things about the state of programing today are Andy Hertzfeld, Charles Simonyi, Jaron Lanier, and Jef Raskin."
No thanks. The first two paragraphs didn't make me want to read anymore. I'll wait for the comments of the slashdoters to appear.
In response to a Salon article on the state of programming today, GoofyBoy posted a witty and insightful comment. Its sparked a large thread of apologists and public outrage from a wide range of slashdot readers and trolls.
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The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
If they did this as a round table, I would have been sad to have missed it. You just know that at some point in the discussion, Raskin and Hertzfeld would have gotten into a fistfight over who the real father of the Mac was. "Two geeks enter, one geek leaves..."
If using Linux is about choice, how come people complain when I choose to use Windows?
Are you seriously suggesting that anyone would read the article anyway? No, this is the time to broadcast one's opinions in a fashion loosely connected with what we think the article might be about.
When someone might yell at me, it has to be OpenBSD.
I'm writting a Perl program in windoze. Using Perl cause that at least makes the job bearable (fuck Java and the assholes who invented it). But since this is 'doze, i gotta use mofukin threads instead of fork! What a fuckin sham. Anyway, I'm asking alll u Perl elite muthafuckaz out there how can a brotha tell if his damn modules are thread-safe or not? And don't tell me to read the muthafukin manual, cause it only sez that if the module doesn't say "y0 i do threads" then it's not safe. WTF? That tells me jack shit is what. It doesn't tell me how to really find out WTF is going on behind the scenes. Someone's gotta know the dealie, y0!
"They were the most filthy, disgusting bunch I have ever seen and were dressed more like gas station attendants than professionals."
You say that now but wait until they crawl out of their underground tunnels at nightfall and eat you.
Or, to summarize your summary:
Same ol', same ol'.
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
lol good sig!... or is it bad sig?
The silver bullet of programming already exists. Link.
For a minute there I thought you meant this silver bullet
I know that I am a much better programmer after a couple of "silver bullets".
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Sadly it's the type of art where they paint with feces.
--- Ban humanity.
Could you please refrain from using Foul Language on this site.
/. has no age verification your comment post has surely caused damage to many young children who's lives will be forever ruined.
If you continue I will file a complaint with the FCC and have you fined.
Free speech in a public forum should be free of anything that may be offensive. Since
I told you, we're an anarcho-syndicist commune, taking turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
This is because there are in fact several persons posting around here, with differing opinions. Didn't you know?
my first thought was :
why should I listen to what m_plzstrSimonyi has to say about programming?
while (!asleep()) sheep++
Lack of soap!
-sig- It's not stupid, it's advanced -sig-
Because Programmers Don't Shower?
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
This is some serious copyright infringement, man. Ripping an article verbatim and posting it on another site.
/. nobody is actually going to read it.
Don't worry this is
"Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule." -- Nietzsche
This has got to be the perfect troll!!
This post immediately leads to an (off-topic) flame war about the relative merits (and lack thereof) of said notation, AND at the same time it gets modded up to 5!
I bow down before your superior posting skills...
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This image of Gates liberating source code print outs from dumpsters made the whole artlicle worth reading.
Religion is the main cause of atheism.